When comparing SolForge vs Combat Monsters, the Slant community recommends SolForge for most people. In the question“What are the best card battle games on Android similar to hearthstone?”SolForge is ranked 11th while Combat Monsters is ranked 17th. The most important reason people chose SolForge is:

The rules of the game are pretty easy to learn but it is underlying strategy of what decks to build and what playstyles to use that make the game so strategic.

Pros

Pro

Simple rules but plenty of strategy to be found

The rules of the game are pretty easy to learn but it is underlying strategy of what decks to build and what playstyles to use that make the game so strategic.

Pro

Unique idea for game mechanics

No mana, play two cards per turn to level them up and increase their power, every four turns the deck is reshuffled to include the leveled up cards.

Pro

Active and awesome community

Small community, but very active and dedicated to the survival of this game.

Pro

Cross platform accounts

SolForge has cross platform accounts, making it easy for users to load up the game on their preferred device and log into their account with all of their progress.

Pro

Over 2000 different cards

The card collection is huge. As of August 2015, the game has more than 2000 cards. Of them 1152 are monster cards. The rest are runes, spells, shields, armor types and weapons. There are 16 different races of monsters and 24 special abilities. The variety offers a great bit of deck building options.

Pro

Looks good

For an Android game, Combat Monsters has beautiful 3D graphics and animations.

Pro

Good single player campaign

Pro

Highly strategic

Playing on an actual board game, positioning the monsters and combining their special abilities is key to a victory. You summon cards using mojo that your hero provide each turn, but that you can get as well through a bunch of other means (abilities, special board tile, runes, spells, ...)

Pro

Lots of different modes

There is 5 deck mode: standard, horde (monsters only), tribal (one race only), single 50 (no duplicated cards) and pauper (only common and uncommoncards). There is a single player campaign for each deck mode. You can also play online real time or asynchronous games versus other players. You can also play versus the AI, up to 5 of them! And there is adaily challenge that reward you some cards upon victory

Cons

Con

May feel pay to win

Collecting cards in the game can be difficult as no single card can be purchases, you can only get cards in packs that either cost real money or earned in game currency, which takes time and grinding to earn. This is exasperated by the fact that there is no secondary market where people can sell cards.

Con

Developer has given up

Almost shut down 3 months ago, now the guy running the community is the only one doing anything